Memory was a big topic of discussion at last week's Intel Developer Forum, and I was interested to see both how faster memory is now becoming commonplace in clients and servers, and how new techniques are coming together to promote persistent memory.

Probably the biggest news at the Intel Developer Forum last week was the company's plans for 10nm production, and particularly that the company would now be offering access to ARM's Artisan physical IP.

There is a good amount of innovation in the Note 7—it may well be the top-end phone yet produced—what struck me most while looking at the actual device is how it has taken concepts from previous phones and refined them

Sending a probe to another star and listening for signs of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe were among the projects that DST Global CEO Yuri Milner discussed during the recent Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference.

At last week's Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference, one of the big topics was the "digital transformation" that many big companies are going through, and how some of these old-line companies are moving into new digital areas.

This weekend marks 50 years since Intel co-founder Gordon Moore published the paper that gave rise to the concept of "Moore's Law," the idea that transistor density would double with each new generation of technology.

Intel formally announced its Atom X5 and X7 chips, its first 14nm Atom system-on-chip (SoC) design, aimed primarily at the tablet market, along with the Atom X3, Intel's first SoC with an integrated modem.

One of the big things at this week's International Solid States Circuits Conference (ISSCC) was a discussion of how the industry will create processors at 10nm and below, and whether doing so will be cost effective.